top speed, quarter mile

[buck80mph_imp]

is it true this bike only does 112 mph?????

what is the quarter mile speed this bike does in the quarter...

i had a honda magna, 2003, and i know that would go above 112....

Cycle World:

quarter mile: 11.8 sec / 110 MPH
top speed: 110 MPH

this is the territory of superbike 10 yrs ago

Cycle World:

quarter mile: 11.8 sec / 110 MPH
top speed: 110 MPH

this is the territory of superbike 10 yrs ago
Not on par with Superbikes 10 years ago but that is a Very respectable ET...

[Mike Bee_imp]

A motorcycle magazine. They are all mostly full of crap, just like Internet forums. That sounds like the article about the FZ-09 in Cycle World where they say its design is a result of "trickle-down" MotoGP technology. Yes, please show me the MotoGP bike with a two-piece frame that bolts together at the steering head.

That comment from MCN is pure nonsense. Airplane engines are swinging in the breeze getting cooled by the air blast at say, 90 mph cruising speed for a light single-engine, four-cylinder trainer (C172SP, let's say). They can do this day and night for hours on end, year in and year out. If this air-cooled engine in our bike is blasting down the road at unlimited top speed, say, 130 mph, it's getting a tremendous amount of cooling air so engine cooling is a zero, zip, nada, non-issue cubed. Also, how long would someone reasonably be able to sustain 130 mph without slowing down? Not long on a public road. If someone wants to go to the Bonneville Salt flats and try for a land speed record, they can just unplug the speed sensor, so no worries there.

The cooling issue arises when an air-cooled bike is sitting in traffic, not moving or barely moving, for long periods of time, not when the bike is hauling ass in a 100 mph+ windblast. Harley had/has a system that actually cuts spark to the rear cylinder when it starts to overheat in traffic. It works. It never activates when the bike is actually underway at any kind of normal road speed.

dang i hate those magazines sometime
A light aircraft engine? Ok. So what's the temperature of the air at cruising altitude? Chances are good that we're talking essentially refrigerator air - it's cold out there! Even freezing. Those (horizontally opposed) 4-cylinders are all seperated from each other & finned all the way around - not siamiesed like the CB1100. Other than the fact that both are air cooled - apples and oranges IMHO.

~ The Bee

[Deanohh_imp]

I wish I was reel smart so I cud figure out all this stuff just by thinking about it without any testing or science methud at all.

[Joola_imp]

I'd been ignoring this thread since the first day it was posted because it didn't interested me at all. I'm part of the camp that doesn't mind the limiter and doesn't exceed the speed limit by more than 20% on avg. I just skimmed most of the thread and it reminded me of a comic from a few years back. I hope you're all enjoying your CB11s as much as you're debating this subject.

[the Ferret]

Lol that's a good one joola

[Deanohh_imp]

Since we're all guessing anyway, I would suggest that the cost of reprogramming a ecu is trivial and almost nothing. What's not nothing is the cost of testing required to validate the engineering of the entire machine for higher speeds. , which probably would result in a redesign needed in many of the components. But that's already been done with the result being their naked liter.